Server load problems

[antus]

It seems to be fine. Cloudflare helped a lot, I ended up letting chatgpt back in because its a well behaved bot and actually works as a good search engine to find things on the site and can link back to particular threads. The tencent bot that broke all the rules is presumably still blocked. Database is on its on its own dedicated server now, this part is new, and with the reduced load without tencent effectively sending a massive DDOS it is capable of handling many times over the legitimate traffic the site is likely to get.

[AngelMarc]

Just minor annoyance slow downs sometimes, like clicking "I am not a robot" each time you switch between devices. All I've seen anyway.

[immortality]

That's fairly common on a lot of websites I frequent now, I think that is the new normal now.

[vlad01]

It certainly is, many sites I have used over the last several years implemented cloudflare long ago. We are one of the ones late to the party on that one.

Cloudflare is very common on old school forums for the same reason.


I normally only get it if I take my phone or laptop to a different house, thus different internet IP etc... Within the same house I seldom have the challenge come up, even between devices.


EDIT: Unrelated but I noticed this post is my 8192nd ha!

[MPC001]

EDIT: Unrelated but I noticed this post is my 8192nd ha!

[antus]

Wow, 10 0000 0000 0000 posts!

[vlad01]

I've ruined it now, but 8192 baud posts! Yay! You know your a nerd when seemingly random numbers are meaningful

[AngelMarc]

Wow, 10 0000 0000 0000 posts!

4 digit spaces.
You sir, have been spending too much time looking at hex files.

[AngelMarc]

seems bad today

[antus]

How so?